Jack at Vinyl Pulse was gracious enough to do an interview with Ohm about himself, his art process, and his experience working on the Tcho figures. The interview also showcases Ohm's sweet art skills; once again working the way 'real' men do: ink straight to paper!

While at the Vinyl Pulse/Switcheroo studio we were able to spend some brief moments with Amanda Vissell, Michelle Valigura, and Bwana Spoons. I was able to get a close look at the Kozik X Vissell Kid Robot piece for SDCC (it looks AMAZING!) and a bunch of awesome stuff Bwana is getting ready for his SDCC Grass Hut booth.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO INTERVIEW BY CLICKING HERE

Our Arizona trip was ended on a high note with a signing at Red Hot Robot. Red Hot Robot is a beautiful store in the center of Phoenix Arizona. The strip of stores of which Red Hot Robot is a part of has to be the best looking strip of stores in all of Phoenix. Great taste must be contagious. Jason and his crew were super hospitable. The store was beautiful. The selection was amazing. The group of people that came out to the signing were awesome. Everyone was super-friendly and very patient. Ohm was taking his time bringing his best to every Custom piece he made. It meant that people had to wait a little while, but it also assured that they left with a a beautiful and original toy! Thank you so much to Jason and everyone that showed up for the signing in Arizona.

Before our signing at Red Hot Robot (more on that later), we used our free time to visit McFarlane Toys. As a long time fan of McFarlane Toys, it was nice to get the office tour and spend some time with the great people at the company. Todd McFarlane's success at turning his Spawn comic into a successful toy line was a big inspiration for making our Lucha Libre characters into Designer Toys.

While there we saw some pages of Kirkman and McFarlane's upcoming 'Haunt' comic (it's looking great!). We briefly met singer/actor and soon-to-be-published comic author Tyrese Gibson. Unfortunately, we didn't have the chance to meet with Todd McFarlane (he was in meetings all day).

Before we left, Ohm did some sketches for Matt, Joe, and Todd McFarlane. Matt brought out the official Image Comics comic art paper and Ohm went to work. Ohm said it's some of the best paper he's worked with. He raised his sketching standards a bit to do the paper justice. Ohm does his sketches directly with ink. No pencils. No planning. He just drops his pen on the paper and go to work. The results were amazing (as can be seen below).

Matt also showed us one of the prized possessions in their Granite Conference Room: Ash's chainsaw from Evil Dead 2. It's a chainsaw that was actually used in the filming of the movie!

'Omiyage' is a Japanese word that refers to small gifts you give to people during travel. I'm normally not a fan of 'Omiyage'. I'm just happy to meet or catch with long time friends... but with the AMAZING gifts I got from Nicolas and Ohm I can surely make an exception! Nicolas gave me a beautiful comic by the comic-genius Blanquet. As I cannot speak a lick of French, it's the perfect 'French' comic to give me since Blanquet's fine sequential art is wordless. I cannot wait to delve into the mind of that twisted black & white world. Ohm gave me an original piece of art. He noticed I loved one of his illustrations on his website (as I had posted it on our blog) so he gave it to me! It's funny, because I was telling Ohm how much I love his original art on our car ride from the airport. His color stuff is wonderful... but what you don't realize until you see his original work ink illustration is his incredible attention to clean consistent linework and detail. The finished pieces are meticulous. And now I am the owner of one. I am so freakin' lucky!

Now we're off to Arizona. Wish us a safe trip on our journey to the land of deserts, heat, and Red Hot Robot!

Muttpop fan, PoonDockTaint, kindly pointed out to us that our Red Demon figure is prominently shown in the Red Band trailer for Judd Apatow's FUNNY PEOPLE film. Apatow is the director of comedy classics 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP and producer of SUPERBAD, ANCHORMAN, and STEP BROTHERS. Beyond having a knack for comedy, he (or, at least his set designers) have an excellent taste in toys! Why else would they have a Red Demon Original figure prominently displayed on the window sill in Seth Rogen's room? ;-)

Red Demon would like to thank Seth Rogen for sharing some screen time with him. Red Demon's a little annoyed that most of his time on screen had him a out of focus... but he understands that the Director didn't want Red Demon's devilishly handsome face to distract people from Rogen's heartfelt performance.

Red Demon makes his appearance at around the 1:19 mark of the trailer:

As mentioned prior, we have Ohm coming into town next week. We're super excited to finally have the artist behind the amazing Tcho! Mini Figure redesigns in the USA to spread his doodling skillz for all! For San Diego Comic-con we're doing something pretty unique. Beyond selling the complete Puro Tcho! sets (5 figures + bonus figure) at the DKE booth, we are giving fans a rare opportunity to purchase individual Puro figures in conjunction with the various signings Ohm is doing at the con. Individual figures will only be on sale during the time of the signing. $15 per figure. Ohm will be there to customize your figure with his pretty doodles.

50 of each figure available. Ohm customizing. $15. That's as good as a deal can get!

FRIDAY: JULY 24th

Toy Qube @ 1PM (Moko)

DKE @ 4PM (Malika)

SATURDAY: JULY 25TH

Munky King @ 11AM (Jubbei)

Rotofugi @ 2PM (Captain Biceps)

DKE  @ 4PM (Lou)